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One of Michigan DOT's new principles for its I-94 project in Detroit is to improve walking and biking access on the bridges that cross over the sunken highway. Photo: Google Maps

Highway Planners Pause to Consider the Effect of Road Widening on Detroit Neighborhoods

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 19, 2017 | No Comments

Nowhere has the effect of highways been more obviously detrimental than Detroit, where the overbuilt freeway system helped hollow out one of America’s largest cities. Michigan DOT has agreed to make a highway expansion project less awful.

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Jun 19, 2017 | 1 Comment

RTD Group Inches Closer to Pass Programs That Work for Everyone (Denverite)
Car Storage Threatens Plan to Make Park Hill Business Park Walkable (Greater Park Hill)
DBJ Editor Neil Westergaard: Traffic Frustrates People
Pocket Park Opens in Westwood (Independent)
Englewood Mayor Applauds Transit Connections, Warns of Millions Needed for Roads (Villager)
Summer Approaches So Police Will Look Harder for DUI Offenders (Coloradoan)
Another Driver Uses Car to Smash Through Gun Shop (Fox31)

National headlines at Streetsblog USA

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Can you spot the bike path? Image: Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling/YouTube

Virginia DOT Hopes People Will Enjoy Bicycling Next to a Noisy, Exhaust-Choked Freeway

By Stephen Miller | Jun 16, 2017 | No Comments

When a bike path is added to a highway expansion project, it risks being an afterthought, resulting in a low-quality, high-stress route. Like this one, now in the works in Northern Virginia.

One of Car2Go's Mercedes cars. Photo: David Sachs

Car2Go Is Trading Smart Cars for Mercedes, Among Other Changes. How Will Denver’s Streets Change?

By David Sachs | Jun 16, 2017 | 2 Comments

From a public policy standpoint, car-sharing should be a tool that helps residents forgo car ownership. Will the changes help or hurt?

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Fountain Street in Providence, R.I., last month. Photo: James Kennedy of Transport Providence.

An Idea That Sticks: Another Plunger-Protected Bike Lane Goes Permanent

By Michael Andersen, PlacesForBikes | Jun 16, 2017 | No Comments

Tactical urbanism projects are prompting cities to improve the bike-riding environment.

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Jun 16, 2017 | 1 Comment

Ped-Bike Safety Is “Hot Topic” on Cap Hill One-Ways, But Slower Speeds No Guarantee (ABC7)
Norlan Estrada-Reyes Faces Four to 12 Years for Killing Karina Pulec With Car (DenPo)
Denver’s Car-Free Park-Slash-Trail Opens on 21st Street (Denverite, 9News)
Driver Kills Road Worker in Silverthorne (9News)
Golden Triangle Development to Have 127 More Parking Stalls Than Homes (Denverite)
Boulder Police Arrest Hit-and-Run Driver Who Injured Woman (Camera)

National headlines at Streetsblog USA

The Square on 21st is, sadly, no longer. Photo: David Sachs

The Square on 21st Opens, Showing Denver What a Street Can Be When It Prioritizes People

By David Sachs | Jun 15, 2017 | 2 Comments

For the first time in Denver’s history, a downtown street dedicated to the movement of cars has been transformed into a place for people that will last two months.

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Parking Reform Has Big Implications for Sustainable Transit — and for Ride-Hailing, Too

By Stephen Miller | Jun 15, 2017 | No Comments

Cities have traditionally eliminated parking requirements to encourage walking, bicycling, and transit. But it can also aid the rise of on-demand car services, two top parking policy experts say.

Today’s Headlines

By David Sachs | Jun 15, 2017 | No Comments

G-Line, Scheduled to Open Last Year, May Not Carry Passengers Until 2018 (DenPo)
…And Arvada Mayor Says RTD Misled Him About Timeline (9News)
Car-Free Takeover of 21st Street Block Starts Today (The Know)
Affordable For-Sale Homes Rising Near Welton Street Station (Denverite)
Will DPW, CDOT Fix Deadly Federal and Kentucky Intersection? (ABC7)
Car2Go Exchanges Utilitarian Smart Cars With Larger Luxury Model (Denverite)
Douglas County Won’t Widen I-25 With Money from Jail Tax (CO Politics)

National headlines at Streetsblog USA

A bicyclist crosses Federal on West 23rd Avenue, an intersection where some white stripes would make a big difference. Photo: David Sachs

West 23rd Ave Should Be Getting a Bike Lane Extension Across Federal — Unless Parking

By David Sachs | Jun 14, 2017 | 6 Comments

Denver Public Works wants to stripe a bike lane on West 23rd Avenue where it intersects one of the city's deadliest streets, Federal Boulevard. But when it comes to protecting humans riding bikes in Denver, there's always the risk that car storage — or the fear of any space getting dedicated to bikes at all — will take precedence.

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White Horse Road in Greenville, SC. Image: Google Maps

Media Point to Deadly Suburban Speedways in North, South Carolina — Without Using ‘J’ Word

By Stephen Miller | Jun 14, 2017 | No Comments

Newspapers in Greenville and Fayetteville examined hazardous conditions for local pedestrians -- and they did it without using the "J" word.

The alley where Jason Brown struck and killed Kimberly Macey. Image: Google Maps

Woman Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in South Broadway Alley Was Kimberly Macey

By David Sachs | Jun 14, 2017 | 2 Comments

Kimberly Macey, 33, left behind two sons when a driver killed her as she walked through a Broadway alley near Ellsworth Avenue on June 2.

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